Name: Life In The Fast Lane
Uploaded: 2021-01-01
Duration: 49 min 1 s
Description: Some creatures play hard and die young. Small bodies are more susceptible to heat loss need a lot of calories to stay warm. With high metabolisms, creatures like shrews, hummingbirds, and porpoises must devote their lives to eating and might perish between meals.

Some creatures play hard and die young. Small bodies are more susceptible to heat loss need a lot of calories to stay warm. With high metabolisms, creatures like shrews, hummingbirds, and porpoises must devote their lives to eating and might perish between meals.

Discover how shrews, hummingbirds, and porpoises survive on a razor-thin energy budget, where missing a meal can be fatal. This film reveals how high metabolisms shape speed, perception, hunting, and even life span, turning familiar animals into astonishing examples of biological tradeoffs. Sign up to see nature's smallest warm-blooded specialists from a whole new angle.

Inside the frantic physics of tiny animals racing to stay alive.

Life In The Fast Lane

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